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Comment by Apocalypsenear | Hacker News Reader

Which is why Lemmy needs more users to promote diversity and mainstream usage. Right now its filled with leftists mostly because they get banned from sites like reddit.

The thing I enjoy about Lemmy is that you can join an instance and if you don't agree with the policies and the people there you can join a different instance.

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https://github.com/innereq/lenny#the-lemmy-problem

Having more users isn't going to help if the core developers are anti-diversity.

I was expecting your link to make some kind of point to substantiate your "anti-diversity" claim. This just shows they don't allow slurs on the platform.

Not "on the platform." In the software. Lemmy is not a website.

What do you need slurs for though

It's not about that.

It's a federated protocol. You can run your own instance that allows slurs and federate with whoever agrees. That's a non-issue.

If not being able to say the N-word impedes your ability to articulate your political worldview, you should probably reflect on that.

It is not populated by leftists because they get banned elsewhere, it is populated by leftists because the developers (who are also the admins of the earliest, biggest instances) are loud and proud self avowed Marxists.

Which is fine, write code, live by your beliefs, but enforcing them in software on other people who might implement it is what I have a problem with.

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